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"Activist"???? For what??...token Hispanics who can be bought and brought in the fourth quarter to attempt to garner minority acceptance??? Did they support our Hispanic Supreme Court Justice - I ask you?

Don't really know anything about her. "In her announcement, Vega said she admires Gov. Rick Perry. She has also previously lent her support to Attorney General Greg Abbott in his bid for governor, calling his outreach to the Latino community “positive conservatism.” - mmm what Latino outreach?

Lets put it this way if the GOP/Tea Party are wanting more women voters, gl, because they just pissed off thousands more. - Then you had this... A Texas district judge was almost barred from the polls on Tuesday. She has voted for the past 49 years but this time it was different, courtesy of the state’s new voter ID law.

There she is - John Cornyn's TEA party candidate. TEA party enthusiast Linda Vega is just the type sought after by this radical fringe element. She starts by say she stands for America, and vows to protect and defend the liberties of her citizens. These are Texas citizens and are already protected by the federal government. And they are not her citizens. She cites restoring America which is too close to the title of the right-winged PAC named Restoring America PAC which boasts 2 million petitions to repeal the PPACA.(Obamacare) Linda Vega's namesake says she is of Hispanic descent to draw voters from the Hispanic community. Citing Americas need to restore pride in America, she sites her support for the Constitution and the 2nd amendment for people to bears arms. Vega states there should be less restrictions to allow access to resources to generate jobs. This is dead-on attack on opening private and public federal lands to scour pristine lands for coal, oil, natural gas and other minerals for the enrichment of the biggest corporations to remove mountaintops and timber for the biggest corporations. Calling for better foreign policies for sharing energy through partnerships is TEA-talk for lets make more money for the biggest corporations at the expense of the general public, rather than lower the costs of driving or industry.

October 23, 2013 @ 9:34 p.m.

Rudy Gonzales

Linda Vega wants "School choice," which is TEA-talk for pillaging the education resources for private schools to make money off public funding. Vega cites the immigration system as being broken, but would infuse TEA-styled shut-downs like Cruz imposed to force America to do his bidding. There already is an immigration bill from the Senate ready for voting in the House, but she would join forces with the Ted Cruz's, Mike Lee's and Marco Rubio's to subvert the pending legislation to the liking of TEA-types. She states lack of economic opportunities and funding for illegal immigrants. She is more wrong than she realizes. Many Mexican immigrants are owners of eating establishments, carpet installers, grounds maintenance, building and construction and multiple other industries which generates jobs and taxes at the local, state and federal level. Undocumented immigrants do not receive benefits at all, but their legal citizens born naturalized citizens by birth may receive benefits. All of her pronouncements are straight out of the TEA bible. She supports individual rights and states rights in her position papers, which again come word-for-word from the TEA bible. Individual and states rights are spelled out in the Constitution and Amendments, but she selectively omits segments or portions she doesn't want, which again mimics the TEA-styled bible.

October 23, 2013 @ 9:34 p.m.

Rudy Gonzales

Stating she is pro-life and life begins at conception, she stands against Roe V. Wade of 1975 and would side with the religious branch of the TEA-Evangelical-Republican party. Her views of the sanctity of Marriage is typical of every TEA-Evangelical-Republican-Libertarian segments who continue to segregate individuals because of their choices of companionship. The Supreme court has already ruled that DOMA is unconstitutional and she has taken the opposite side in her position. Again, this is exactly what TEA types want to impose on others who do not see it their way. TEA-Republicans running states have modified voting rules and regulations to restrict voting times, who qualifies, what willbe accepted as valid documents to present to be allowed to vote, limit student votes in areas by where they have permanent residence. All this came about after the Supreme Court's decision overturning a key parts of the Voting Rights Act. Texas and other states acted immediately to change the rules for voting. Linda Vega supports states rights to make decisions for the residents of that state and provide sections of the nation where TEA-types can short-circuit federal programs and impose TEA-Republican rulings to slow programs like the PPACA(Obamacare) and further restrict federal rules when it comes to Medicaid for the residents. These states rights also allow diverting money from some federal programs to other state projects and lower fund Medicaid services.( http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/State-takes-charity-care-money-from-UTMB-4398633.php )

October 23, 2013 @ 9:35 p.m.

Rudy Gonzales

Many states have imposed TRAP laws. Regulations applying only to abortion clinics are sometimes called TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws. They create standards that may be arbitrary or difficult to implement and are aimed at closing abortion clinics. Examples include "ambulatory surgical center" requirements, which impose costly renovations to the facilities, or the requirement that doctors performing abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Some hospitals refuse admitting privileges to any doctor who performs abortions as many hospitals are run by religious entities. Yet these religious entities can receive federal Medicare, Medicaid and other funding for services rendered. Kind of a double standard, but that is where Linda Vega stands. Her position forces girls and women to carry to term a child that may have been conceived by rape, incest, domination or without consent by other means. This imposition does not take into consideration the life of the girl or woman and removes a women's right to make her own decisions about her body. Other types of state imposed rules or regulations are requiring ultrasound/Sonograms with tools or instruments that penetrate a woman's body and not required by medical physicians.(Obstetricians) Mandatory waiting periods, listening to fetal heart beats, physician scripts for specialized medications, civil clause of actions which for abortion related damages to the unborn for up to numerous years. Recording and reporting of abortions performed is specific states have also been written for publication, but has been overturned by federal courts. TRAP laws are favored and supported by Linda Vega. All this show the acts and tactics used by TEA-types across the nation to hold over the average person who didn't vote for some of these radical fringed elements. Remember the Republican party openly sought TEA-types to bolster their numbers in an attempt to vote Obama out of office. Now TEA-types have set their eyes on the very masters who sought them out!

Lori- She doesn't have "policies." If you want to know what her talking points are, go to the Texas Public Propaganda Foundation website, where you can read all about the kind of Texas that the Koch Brothers envision for us.

She is running against the Odious Cornyn in order to siphon off votes and/or to force him further to the right. In other words, Linda Vega is a tool.

Yes, a Judge was kept from voting due to a MANDATED law in the 1960's that required a woman to use her maiden surname as her middle name when she married. That is in contrast to what has been required for voter registration. So now, all women whose driver's license was in compliance with the state law for years, are going to be kept from the polling place. As the judge says, they will be required to fill out a "provisional ballot" which means they have to come back in 6 days with "ID that is in compliance with the new laws". If this judge is kept from casting a vote, think of the number of women in Texas that will have the same fate....most of who will be voting for Wendy Davis.